The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-07-16

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fathers.
"Charity Higgins ut Home"
SO true is this that that man who
gives to strangers all his livelihood
will soon come to want. And
yet Monongalia county is just do
ing this very thing from year to year,
which accounts for our slowness.
Here the State University is situa-
ted and here the young men of this
State and county are made either
for veal or Woe We take Monon-
gala county boy, educate him give
to his vigorous mental powers q pow
er Of grasp and acuteness which the
uneducated man does not possess
and as soon as he has gotten all
we can give, as soon as he is capa-
Bile to do his work thoroughly in the
world, we send him West or South to
build up those sections of the coun-
try. Year by year. man by man,
we do this. What is the result?
4on cannot go into a state in this
Union and not find familiar faces.
We hear and see and know that the
great West has far outstripped us
in the race We are fossilized
We are dead
We are wormeaten
Our young blood has gone to de
velop other States, and only the old
and infrm remain. Is this not
so? Does any one doubt these sad
facts?
Why is st. Paul and Minnesota
bristling with life and business?
Why are Wichita and Kansas City
synonyms for wealth and push? |
say that Minnesota has not half the
natural resources of wealth and pros
perity that West Virginia has. We
have more Wealth in our mountains
than these Western business men
ever saw Then why this difference
in the two sections? I'll tell you
Go with me to the busy, bristling,
busting city of ST. Paul. Enter
those immense business blocks and
there in rooms resembling palaces
behold the faces of men who used to
be in this State and county whom
we fitted for life and then sent out
West to reclaim that country from
its wilds to civilization. West Vir-
ginia brains are as clear and clean
cut as our fresh mountain air in the
early morning. In every department
of work we find old Monongalia' S
boys exeelling. We find them in
the great eastern cities of Brooklyn,
New York, Chicago. Or go to Iowa
and see the champion orator of that
State; hear him at Des Moins, De
troit and Buffalo ON the same plat
form with Hawley and Logan; here
| Wv. A-ui dbCC say bud1 he Will bS
the next Governor of the great
State of Iowa, and then look at his
face and see the boyish features of
an old Monongalian-"Prent'' Dol
liver
Go to New York city and there
next Sunday morning you will find
, about Is pulpits filled by West Vir-
ginians-many of them young men
some from our county. We devel-
oped in them that earnestness OF
purpose which makes them so much
sought after. So we might 90 tC
every state and among the rising
men we would find Monongalia boys
who are with their whole might do
ing their part in building up the
State of their adoption Why could
l we not keep some of the Young blood
at home and so build up ourselves
In another way have we beer
building up the west and retardins
our own progress. We not only
5 send to these states men who pusf
5 them up, but we stay at home
and call the worlds attention to this
wonderful advancement and The
work of our missionaries, and at The
same time sit and bemoan our owr
e 'snails gallop' speed And if any
: citizen does develop any enterprise
, and try to create boom dozen ole
: ''mossbacks' cry it down for feal
their neighbor will turn an homes
l penny.
r Out west they pull together
r They may growl, but when boon
comes along, former enemies join to
gether in bringing about browning
good Every man has appointed
e himself a lecturer to lecture upon tn
# wonderful merits of his town ant
country, and they show off thei
country to the very best Advantage
y They brag rather than apologize
Il They work instead of wall. The
run instead of crawl They "ge
# there instead of die.
- Let us make Rome howl" i,
Monongalia. Let us hold on to th
{ boys. Let us convert our owl
!, heather before we send any NOR
e missionaries west. If we do this
n our County and State will blossor
as the rose.